The World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the increasing spread of mpox in Africa is a global health emergency, ...

Health authorities have struggled to contain outbreaks of mpox in Congo, a huge central African country where a myriad of ...

Mounting an urgent mpox vaccination campaign in Africa is crucial, write Gavin Yamey, Marco Schäferhoff, and Shingai ...

Mpox is now considered a global health emergency as cases surge in Central Africa and a new, more severe subtype of the virus spreads to multiple countries — prompting concerns about lockdowns ...

The mpox outbreak in Africa is still not under control, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) ...

Declared a PHEIC by WHO, an mpox outbreak in the DRC is posing a threat to human health as far away as Sweden.

In 2022, the version of clade II that spread globally, dubbed clade IIb, was passed primarily through sexual contact, ...

Opens in a new tab or window Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new tab or window Amid a new surge of mpox in Africa, the spread of the more deadly clade I subtype, and a rising number of mpox cases in ...

Earlier this week, the WHO declared the spread of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), plus a growing number of other countries in Africa, a public health emergency of international ...

Kamituga, the region in Congo where the new form of mpox was first spotted, is home to a significant transient population traveling through Africa and beyond. Still, given the resources in rich ...

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the increasing spread of mpox in Africa is a global health emergency, warning the virus might ultimately spill across ...

Mpox belongs to the same family of viruses as smallpox but causes milder symptoms like fever, chills and body aches. People with more serious cases can develop lesions on the face, hands, chest ...